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Seven farmers were abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents from a plantation before there were slaughtered.

Police are questioning the mother and are trying to determine whether she killed the babies or if they were stillborn, the report said.

Takahiro Shiraishi charged with murder of Aiko Tamura and accused of dismembering and killing 8 others in Zama.

A graveyard is going on auction in Wales on 7 December. Plans to turn the abandoned burial site have been protested by locals for the last 20 years.

Attack occurred in Adamawa which along with Borno and Yobe states is under state of emergency due to violent insurgency.

The footage shows the boys clinging onto the train as it travelled along, which could have resulted in their deaths.

The Argentine navy has not yet ruled out any hypothesis but said that there might have been an electrical problem which may have cut off the vessel's communications.

Shyma Ahmad was arrested for 'inciting debauchery' through her suggestive music video titled "3andy Zoroof".

Despite being called out for 'relentless embezzlement and extortion', Equatorial Guinea's vice president walked away from a French court with a suspended jail sentence.

The disastrous accident at the power plant in Japan was triggered by the 2011 tsunami which caused nuclear meltdowns in three of the reactors.

The problem of hiring bias may fester on with many organisations still not taking active steps to tackle it, new research finds.

While many hailed the girls for their innocent effort towards bringing peace, a number of people also expressed their unhappiness and called it "shameful".

Film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has also received death threats over the his latest film Padmavati.

Sir Christopher Greenwood was in competition with Indian candidate Dalveer Bhandari for the 15th and final vacancy on the ICJ before the UK mission announced its decision to step down.

The ride-hailing company said the man was not an active Uber driver and had been banned in 2015.

Moscow did not admit to a leak but said the concentration of radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 reached 986 times the normal level.

London's Metropolitan Police found the body of Catherine Burke in her Muswell Hill home last Thursday. Police say she may have known her attacker.

The teen suspect was alleged to have assaulte his grandfather and threatened his mother before stabbing a woman in the face and chest.

The Old Bailey heard that Lee Hatley was stabbed 29 times by his friend, Bradley Wood, who also stabbed his girlfriend, Lauren Egan-Perkins, while she slept in her flat in London.

Argentina's navy is investigating a noise thought to emanate from the missing ARA San Juan submarine that has 44 crew members on board.

In one instance, the regulatory agency said that a "habitual offender" who had previously escaped from prison was released and became an Uber driver.

Imran 'Baldy' Shahid, who was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years in 2006, demanded the penis pump returned because he has a 'bad reaction' to Viagra tablets.

Shelby Isaac was out cold for at least five minutes after learning that she had been convicted of shooting dead E.J. Tate, his girlfriend Edwina Thomas and their unborn child.

The US President said the new designation would furhter increase the "maximum pressure campaign" against North Korea as it continues its nuclear ambitions.

Activists fear that an anti-LGBT law could be passed as homophobia starts gaining traction in the country.

Passengers received an ear-splitting start to their holidays after being forced to endure a faulty speaker that buzzed for most of their ten-hour flight from London to Las Vegas.

Scotland Yard is "highly likely" to be searching for "woman in purple" Luisa Todorov and her husband Stefan, who worked at the Ocean Club at the time of Maddie's disappearance.

"Sensational" first-year Cambridge University student Thomas Millward died after taking a legal high and falling down a stairwell, an inquest has heard.

France consumers have been warned of a foie gras shortage ahead of Christmas, which means prices will rocket. The French are only just coming out of a butter crisis.